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Set 1

Hard To Handle
Candyman
Me And My Uncle
Cold Rain And Snow
Dancing In The Street

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Reviewer: hoggydoggy - - January 5, 2012
Subject: Mislabelled...
NONE of the music dated as 12/17/70 comes from this date - see here http://deadessays.blogspot.com/2010/10/mysterious-case-of-121770.html for an in-depth analysis of the origin of this supposed show and the true source dates for the songs.

To whit: from 10/4/70,

Cold Rain & Snow
Uncle John's Band (mislabelled as 12/23/70 on the Workingman's Dead Rhino CD reissue, but that track is clearly different to the correct 12/23/70 UJB on shnid #31608)

From 10/5/70,

Dancin' In The Streets

Unknown but probably 10/5/70 (based on no other date identified for them),

Hard To Handle
Candyman
Me and My Uncle

Irrespective of source, this is terrific material, but we really need the full 10/5/70 at some point!

Reviewer: bookends - - December 17, 2010
Subject: Dancing Jam
love the jam in Dancing, common to 1970 and this era. Always puts a smile on my face.

Reviewer: grasshopperak - - December 17, 2010
Subject: candy man
how is it that the old stuff from around 1970 is some of the best sounds going out there?
is it because they brought the old multitrack recorders employing nice fat analog tape? was it the LSD then? it seems to drip through the speakers
the stuff folks are tripping on today? that i don't know, it ain't nothing good , judging by the state a the world, time to make it better, which this show shows, can be done, starting with some fucking music, for fuck's sake, i say

Reviewer: Cliff Hucker - - January 23, 2009
Subject: Wrong Date
12/17/70 was a Garcia & Friends show with David Crosby.

This is 12/23/70 Winterland. Check the Tapers Section at Dead.net

Sound is gorgeous, wish there was more...

Reviewer: snow_and_rain - - January 22, 2009
Subject: Holy Phil!
Half way through Hard to Handle and I can already tell that this one is a beauty. Unbelievably good quality tape. Careful with those woofers.

Notes

The venue is conjectural. Deadlists identifies it as the Matrix, based on Eaton's transcript of the vault reel. However, when Dick copied the show to cassette, he attached the following label: "Here is something I have, that was labeled 12/17/70 - Winterland."

A long-standing confusion between this show and the Owsley benefit held at Winterland on 12/23/70, continues to infect GD tapelists. The first four songs, "Hard to Handle" through "Cold Rain and Snow," were put into general circulation by the Bay Area Tapers Group in the mid-1990s, and continue to be mislabeled as 12/23/70.

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sbes fixed by SIRMick
September 2007

- the last 2 tracks may or may not belong with this!